Sean Hannity was revealed on Monday to be the mystery third client of Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s longtime “fixer” and personal attorney. But Hannity did not disclose this important detail as he repeatedly criticized last week’s FBI raid on Cohen’s offices. Hannity’s publicist told Fox News on Monday that Cohen and Hannity have been friends […]
Kendrick Lamar has won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his 2017 album DAMN., the organization announced Monday. It is the first time in the roughly 40-year history of hip-hop that the Pulitzer committee has recognized anyone from that essentially African-American cultural contribution, which has long since conquered the world far beyond the city […]
Kendrick Lamar has won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his 2017 album DAMN., the organization announced Monday. It is the first time in the roughly 40-year history of hip-hop that the Pulitzer committee has recognized anyone from that essentially African-American cultural contribution, which has long since conquered the world far beyond the city […]
Saving American jobs from going overseas was the cornerstone of candidate Trump’s populist campaign for president. “We’re just shipping company after company after company is leaving this country and leaving jobs behind,” Trump said in March of 2016. “And I’m going to get it stopped.” In October of 2017, while the GOP tax bill was in […]
A Canadian far-right extremist who murdered six men in a shooting rampage at a Quebec City mosque last January was obsessed with Donald Trump and a number of popular far-right causes including criticisms of Islam and feminism, according to evidence presented at his sentencing hearing. Alexandre Bissonnette, 28, pleaded guilty last month at a Quebec […]
Shortly after 3 p.m. on Monday, Michael Cohen’s lawyer outed Fox News host Sean Hannity as Cohen’s third, previously undisclosed client. The news broke during Shephard Smith’s program. Smith is more critical of President Trump than perhaps any other Fox News personality, and as a result recently come under attack from Hannity, who is a […]
Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal attorney and “fixer,” has also represented conservative talk show host Sean Hannity this year. A federal judge on Friday ordered Cohen to disclose his client list by 10 a.m. on Monday. Cohen put the scope of his legal practice at issue when he filed a temporary restraining order to prevent the government […]
China’s largest social media network has reversed a plan to censor all content about homosexuality in the wake of a massive protest. On Friday, Sina Weibo — a microblogging platform with nearly 400 million active users, often described as China’s Twitter — announced a “clean-up campaign” that would be removing “illegal” content, including “manga and […]
Republicans are so desperate to defeat an ex-con coal baron in the GOP’s West Virginia Senate primary they are even running ads pretending to care about toxic coal waste to defeat him. Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship is seeing a surge in popularity — even though he’s still on probation after serving one year in […]
Nearly three days after the United States, France, and the United Kingdom joined forces to attack alleged chemical weapons facilities in Syria, little is known about the impact of the attack. The three targets — associated with the government’s alleged research, development, and deployment of chemical weapons — were struck on Friday night in Syria, […]
Colorado teachers joined others across the country in demanding more education funding and higher teacher pay on Monday. About 400 Colorado teachers decided not to come into school to attend a rally at the Capitol and lobby lawmakers. Teachers want higher salaries, more education funding, and reforms to the state pension system. According to a […]
Children now make up more than 60 percent of the one million South Sudanese refugees who have fled violence for neighboring countries like Uganda, United Nations and government officials have said. Over 85 percent of these refugees are comprised of women and children. Among the children under 18 are 75,000 individuals who are on their […]
A group of eight kids filed a lawsuit on Monday in Florida against Governor Rick Scott (R-FL) in an attempt to force the notoriously climate-averse politician to take action on climate change. The lawsuit is filed by kids 20 years or younger and in partnership with Our Children’s Trust, a nonprofit based in Oregon that […]
Meek Mill is getting a new trial. Philadelphia’s District Attorney Office announced Monday that it supported granting rapper Mill a new trial, as a small crowd of supporters gathered in the rain outside of the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia cheered. Cheers erupt as #MeekMill legal team announces Philly DA’s decision to support new trial […]
On Friday, a federal judge ordered Michael Cohen to turn over a list of his clients to the court by 10 a.m. The judge, U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood, said she would make the list public since the identities of clients, in most instances, are not protected by attorney-client privilege. Cohen’s clientele became an issue […]
State lawmakers in Missouri claim they’ve been threatened with a sharp decrease in donations unless they actively support embattled Gov. Eric Greitens (R), who has been charged with photographing a woman while she was naked and using the image to threaten her with blackmail. Greitens has also been accused of assaulting the woman and coercing […]
Political spending at President Donald Trump’s U.S. businesses has dramatically increased since he announced his run for office in 2015, according to a new report by government watchdog group Public Citizen first obtained by McClatchy. During Trump’s presidential campaign and the first 15 months of his presidency, according to the report, political groups and federal […]
During a CNN interview on Monday, Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel confirmed that Michael Cohen is still an RNC deputy director, and defended him. “Michael Cohen has not been charged with anything, he’s under investigation,” McDaniel said of Cohen, Trump’s longtime personal attorney who was the target of an FBI raid last week and […]
Following the James Comey interview that aired on ABC Sunday night, the White House sent senior counselor Kellyanne Conway out to do damage control Monday morning. But during an interview on Good Morning America, she contradicted Trump’s official line by admitting that Comey swung the 2016 election in Donald Trump’s favor when he announced the investigation […]
As pipeline protests continue to delay and, sometimes, stop energy projects in their tracks, the fossil fuel industry and Republican lawmakers are looking for new ways to clamp down on environmental protest. In the last few years, state lawmakers across the country have proposed bills that would impose harsh penalties on environmental protest, particularly protests […]
As pipeline protests continue to delay and, sometimes, stop energy projects in their tracks, the fossil fuel industry and Republican lawmakers are looking for new ways to clamp down on environmental protest. In the last few years, state lawmakers across the country have proposed bills that would impose harsh penalties on environmental protest, particularly protests […]
LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA — Those outside of Pennsylvania’s Amish country may be surprised to hear of Lancastrians gathering to protest the Muslim ban, or standing in solidarity with Charlottesville, or demanding that their congressman hold a town hall on health care, or calling for a Dream Act. But that open-arms, open-door spirit is embedded into the state’s and […]
It’s possible that Russian officials have collateral on President Donald Trump, former FBI Director James Comey said during an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos. On Sunday night, ABC News aired a one-hour special featuring segments from a much longer interview with the former intelligence official, along with other vignettes and backstory setting the stage […]
On Sunday night, ABC News aired a highly anticipated interview with former FBI Director James Comey, detailing his experience in the Trump Administration and his interactions with Donald Trump himself — before and during his presidency. Comey, who led the FBI’s still-ongoing investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 election, declined to take a definitive […]
On Sunday night, ABC News aired a highly anticipated interview with former FBI Director James Comey, detailing his experience in the Trump Administration and his interactions with Donald Trump himself — before and during his presidency. Comey, who led the FBI’s still-ongoing investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 election, declined to take a definitive […]